New Year’s Eve kicked off with the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences reaching a new milestone. Vikas Patel of Cary, became the 1,000,000th visitor at the Museum since opening its new wing, the Nature Research Center.

RALEIGH — Sometime in the near future, when we least expect it, they will come. Cities will burn. Mankind will panic. Our world will tremble. You must see “Five Million Years to Earth” before it’s too late.